STIGUI
V-256510CAT II — Medium severitySV-256510r958482_rule

The Photon operating system must not have duplicate User IDs (UIDs).

Rule version PHTN-30-000033 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-31

Discussion

To ensure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be uniquely identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and provide for nonrepudiation.

Check

At the command line, run the following command:

# awk -F ":" 'list[$3]++{print $1, $3}' /etc/passwd

If any lines are returned, this is a finding.

Fix

Navigate to and open:

/etc/passwd

Configure each user account that has a duplicate UID with a unique UID.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-256510
Group title
SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051
Rule ID
SV-256510r958482_rule
Check ID
C-60185r887202_chk
Fix ID
F-60128r887203_fix